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Did Marijuana Users Spend Their Stimulus Checks on Weed? August 28, 2020 Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic it has had enormous impact on different sectors of the economy. There have been different implications on the lives and businesses of many. One such implication that is widespread is the loss of jobs and the closure of many businesses in different regions of the country. The government in a bid to help its citizens scale through the problems of the pandemic started issuing stimulus checks to serve as benefits to help the populace in getting through these troubling times. With the lockdown restrictions being imposed widely in different parts and with the extension of the lockdown in some areas, it is expected that these checks will be spent by people on their most immediate needs. This is why it is interesting to see signs of a huge increase in sales of  cannabis  and cannabis-related products during the pandemic. This begs the question ‘did  marijuana  users spend th

Frequency is your choice of focus or where you put your attention. Where you do put your attention, there where the attention is, energy grows or goes. Energy is a sustained choice of attention, after persistent focus on a specific Frequency then the individual vibrates at that frequency literally becoming that frequency. So vibrate Wisely with that which you know is your "best self" or "attained desire" thoughts and feelings do harden into facts... choose greatness, honesty... and valuable forms to become.

EDITORS' PICK | 2,545 views | Aug 26, 2020, 10:00am EDT These Biotech Companies Have Benefited From Covid’s ‘Race To Cure’ Kenneth Rapoza Senior Contributor Markets I write about business and investing in emerging markets. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have $52 million GETTY IMAGES FOR GLOBAL CITIZEN More From Forbes Even before the World Health Organization declared SARS-Cov-2 a global pandemic on March 11, biotech shares were treated to some serious gold rush fanfare. As recent as July, if the market was in trouble, all one needed for it reverse course was for some biotech company – Moderna, Gilead or CanSino Biologics – to release a statement of Covid-19 drug progress — and the market ripped higher. Yet, biotech is not always gold dust for stocks: earlier this month,  a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backed Covid vaccine maker, CureVac  ( CVAC ), debuted on Nasdaq  NDAQ   0.0% . Its share price rose on its opening day, but has been an underperformer since. Biotechnology c

Amazon just pulled some PR jujitsu (again) Amazon’s marketplace for 3rd-party sellers is huge, accounting for  half of its $280B revenue in 2019 . It's also a bit of a Wild West, with counterfeit and fraudulent products  galore . For years, Amazon avoided legal repercussions by holding itself as a blameless provider of services (inventory, shipping) rather than the “ seller of record. ” But the government wants to hold Amazon liable Two weeks ago, the California courts sided with a customer who sued Amazon after a faulty 3rd-party battery  blew up in her face .  A new bill there would make Amazon responsible for its 3rd-party sellers, a much more expensive proposition than… doing nothing. As with Facebook and Google, regulators are increasingly scrutinizing Amazon for the (physical) content on its platform.  In a 4D chess move, Amazon is backing the bill In a blog post , the Seattle-based ecommerce giant writes that they share the “California legislature’s goal of keeping consumers

Garden-path sentence A  garden-path sentence  is a grammatically correct  sentence  that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a  parse  that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. "Garden path" refers to the saying " to be led down [or up] the garden path ", meaning to be deceived, tricked, or seduced. In  A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ,  Fowler  describes such sentences as unwittingly laying a " false scent ". [1] Such a sentence leads the reader toward a seemingly familiar meaning that is actually not the one intended. It is a special type of sentence that creates a momentarily ambiguous interpretation because it contains a word or phrase that can be interpreted in multiple ways, causing the reader to begin to believe that a phrase will mean one thing when in reality it means something else. When read, the sentence seems ungrammatical, makes almo